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![]() ![]() Is this the same piece of land where his library is situated?’ Sitting in the shade, safely out of the debilitating heat of the Masyaf marketplace, Maffeo asked me, ‘Al Mualim’s garden. But you won’t.’ With that, he died.Īltaïr looked up from the body of his mentor to find Malik and his men gazing expectantly at him – waiting for leadership and guidance. ‘Yes, you can, Altaïr,’ gasped Al Mualim. His muscles refused to obey the commands of his brain. ![]() ‘Destroy it as you said you would!’Īltaïr’s hand trembled. He readied himself to dash the Apple against the stone, still unable to take his eyes from the spinning image, finding it hard to make his arm heed the command of his brain. ![]() Whatever spell had been cast over Masyaf was broken. In the distance Altaïr could hear shouting. With barely a glance at the body of Al Mualim, they stood hypnotized by the Apple. Now Malik and his men rushed into the garden. For in much wisdom is much grief and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.’ I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind. It was a map, he saw, with strange symbols – writing he didn’t understand.īehind him he heard Al Mualim speaking: ‘I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. ![]() ![]() He looks deeply into the role of his hometown, Lexington, Massachusetts, in firing the revolutionary “shot heard ’round the world” only to discover that even there, slavery existed until well into the 19th century. What happened? Well, those suburban kids took their detachments from cities and communities and extended them into the hyperindividualism of today, its governing motto “you’re not the boss of me.” McKibben capably picks apart long-ago history to find present themes. “We were better consumers than citizens,” writes McKibben of his generation, the original counterculturalists who mounted rebellions against the war in Vietnam, racial injustice, and inequalities of many kinds. The prolific writer and activist finds some of the causes of our societal meltdown in the idyllic suburbs of his youth. ![]() ![]() ![]() My Name is Mary Sutter is a fascinating look at one aspect of our country’s history: the development of the medical field, born out of necessity because of the Civil War. This is a story about one woman’s certainty of who she really is and what she was put on this earth to do, and her determination to become a doctor in an era where this was unheard of for a woman. In addition, her family can’t understand her calling, and her mother especially just wants her home safe. Her new job is fraught with issues – there’s never enough time to care for everyone, so many soldiers die despite her best efforts, and she runs for days and days on no sleep and little nourishment. When the nursing corps turns her down because of her age (she’s too young), she finds herself meeting with President Lincoln and, upon his recommendation, working in the Union Hotel Hospital as assistant to chief surgeon William Stipp. Mary Sutter is twenty years old when the Civil War breaks out, and for her this is the perfect opportunity to take her trade as a midwife and turn it into a career as a doctor. ![]() ![]() Title: My Name is Mary Sutter Author: Robin Oliveira Release date: Publisher: Viking Adult Pages: 384 Genre: Historical fiction Source: Publisher ![]() ![]() Aside from being his mentor’s daughter, she’s his best friend’s sister. He’s had the hots for Lydia for years, but if ever a woman was off-limits to him it’s her. Soon, Lydia finds it hard to resist the familiar comfort and routine, and even harder to resist her brother’s handsome friend Aidan.Īidan Hunt is a firefighter because of the Kincaid family. But family is number one and her father needs her help running the pub he bought when he retired. ![]() ![]() ![]() She left to get away from the firefighting community-her father was a firefighter, her brother’s a firefighter and, more importantly, her ex is a firefighter. Lydia Kincaid’s shipping back to Boston, but she’s not happy about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() With her father’s escalating violence and her mother’s inability to leave, Leni attempts to live life as best she can by attending school and becoming friends with the only person her age, a boy named Matthew with whom she eventually falls in love. ![]() ![]() Once in Alaska, Ernt becomes involved with a group of anti-government survivalists, thus feeding his paranoia and violent outbursts. To compound this need for survival, Ernt decides to move his family to an isolated cabin in Alaska, where they intend to live off the land…and off the grid. Their daughter Leni is learning to survive the volatility of her home life. Cora, Ernt’s wife, is trying to survive the unpredictable violence of her husband. Ernt Albright has survived as a POW of the Vietnam War and now he is trying to survive life with PTS. The Great Alone is a novel about survival. ![]() ![]() Everything else was labeled ‘Legends.’ With an almost blank slate, the company could mold and guide the brand as they saw fit. Out of the stories prior to the acquisition, only Lucas' six films and the animated The Clone Wars were to be considered canon. Very quickly, Disney reset the expanded Star Wars universe. Even today, it still holds a significant influence in entertainment.ĭecades later, following a continual expansion of the franchise that included a prequel movie trilogy, multiple animated TV spin-offs, and more novels and comic books than many could have imagined, Disney purchased the franchise, and indeed all of Lucasfilm, from creator George Lucas. ![]() ![]() ![]() The original trilogy of movies - Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of the Jedi (1983) - became a cultural phenomenon spawning novels, comics, cartoons and more. The special effects and elaborate costumes transported you to a whole new world while the engaging character-driven story helped ground the events for contemporary audiences to enjoy. You can watch all the Star Wars movies and TV shows now on Disney+.Įver since its debut in 1977, Star Wars has captured the imagination of viewers incorporating multiple genres including sci-fi, fantasy, and old-school westerns. ![]() ![]() ![]() “It is recommended that the parents continue to share equally and jointly, both legal and physical custody of the children," the document stated. Liddell’s depression, his constantly needing to escape through drugs and alcohol, and his impulsivity," the report read.Īfter conducting interviews with both Liddell and his wife, the report reached a conclusion. He’s going to have dementia or Alzheimer’s. He can’t remember stuff and gets stuck on speech. Liddell replied, 'Yes, he’s been knocked out many times and has CTE. Liddell, with respect to his physical health, Ms. “When asked if she had any specific concerns about Mr. In the filing, Liddell's wife raised concerns about his mental well-being. ![]() The former couple have a hearing in the custody case in November, which could grant primary custody of the children to one or the other. She said, He’s been fighting people and beating people up since he was in Kindergarten," further read the report. ![]() Liddell loved to fight and would not let someone get out of fighting him. Liddell has knocked out friends when they tried to help him and used to beat people up for street drugs. Liddell has been violent with non-family members. She stated that this last thing that happened was not typical and she was concerned that he had experienced traumatic brain injury,” the report stated. He also became very worried that she was going to leave him after he lost his job in 2017. ![]() Liddell has had a lot of paranoia and accused her of a lot of things. ![]() ![]() Beyond the paintings Artemisia left behind, Vreeland's vision may be as close as we can come to understanding the anger and ambition that kept this talented woman at the doors of the Accademia, demanding entrance, in a time when respectable women rarely left their homes. Set against the lush tapestry of Renaissance Rome, this is a mesmerizing tale of love, art, and most notably, the love of art. She deftly works history and politics into the background of her canvas, keeping her focus on Artemisia and her family. Although Vreeland makes a bit free with her characters (which she admits in her introduction), attributing some decidedly modern attitudes to people who would not have thought that way at the time, her book is beautifully researched and rich with casual detail of clothing, interiors, and street life. ![]() Like her bestselling debut, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland's second novel, The Passion of Artemisia, traces a particular painting through time: in this case, the post-Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi's violent masterpiece, "Judith." Although the novel purports to cover the life of the painter, the painting serves as a touchstone, foreshadowing Artemisia's rape by Agostino Tassi, an assistant in her father's painting studio in Rome the well-documented (and humiliating) trial that followed the early days of her hastily arranged marriage and her eventual triumph as the first woman elected to the Accademia dell' Arte in Florence. ![]() ![]() ![]() The cases show that romantic love is not a panacea for unequal gender relations and may place women in a disadvantaged position – all the more so because the norms of love are gendered and construe self-sacrifice as more fundamental in women’s manifestations of love than that of men’s. The ethnographic analysis of marriages between unauthorised African male migrants and (non-Dutch) EU female citizens, often suspected by immigration authorities of being ‘sham’, demonstrate the complex articulation of love and interest and the consequences of neglecting this entanglement – both for the spouses and scholars. Nevertheless, love and interest are closely entwined and their consideration as separate is not only misleading but affects the exchanges that take place within marriage and, therefore, has particular implications for spouses, especially for women. ![]() ![]() The categorisation of marriages between ‘sham’ and ‘genuine’ derives from the assumption that interest and love are and should be unconnected. In the name of women’s protection, Dutch immigration authorities police cross-border marriages differentiating between acceptable and non-acceptable forms of marriage (e.g. ![]() |